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17 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 27 February 2015 07:26PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 01 March 2015 07:24:50AM 3 points [-]

Possible counterexample:

My father is a professor of electrical engineering. The electronics lab courses involve using simulation software as well as using physical components. In one lab experiment, the students built a circuit that the software didn't simulate correctly (because of simplifications in the models the software used), and one of the questions the students had to answer was why they thought the computer simulation didn't match the measured values. All the students blamed experimental error, and none questioned the computer models...